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4-54 MAX 6000/3000 Network Configuration Guide
Configuring Individual WAN Connections
Configuring MP, MP+ and BACP connections
Note: If a RADIUS profile does not specify Ascend-Maximum-Channels, the default value
of 1 prevents the client from establishing a multichannel call.
Example of MP+ configuration
Figure 4-3 shows the MAX unit connected to a remote Pipeline unit with an MP+ connection.
Figure 4-3. An MP+ connection
To configure an MP+ connection with a remote MAX unit:
1 Open the Answer profile.
2 Set PPP and MP+ encapsulation to Yes and specify the appropriate routing, bridging, and
authentication values. For example:
Ethernet
Answer
Encaps
MPP=Yes
PPP=Yes
PPP Options
Route IP=Yes
Route IPX=No
Bridge=No
Recv Auth=Either
3 Exit the profile and, at the exit prompt, select the exit and accept option.
4 Open a Connection profile, specify the name of the remote device, and activate the profile.
For example:
Ethernet
Connections
fiona
Station=fiona
Active=Yes
5 Select MP+ encapsulation and set the MP+ authentication options. For example:
Ascend-Remove-Seconds
(241)
Number of seconds for which the ALU must persist below the
Target-Utilization threshold before the unit subtracts bandwidth.
Ascend-Target-Util (234) Percentage of line utilization (default 70%) to use as a threshold
when determining when to add or subtract bandwidth.
Ascend-Maximum-Chan
nels (235)
Maximum number of channels available to a multilink PPP
connection. In this release, MP does not make use this value.
However, it’s value does apply to MP+ connections.
Attribute Value
WAN
MAX
Pipeline 25